• Wanderer@lemm.ee
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    8 months ago

    Increasing energy use, or at least increasing the amount of usable energy we consume is always going to increase.

    It’s not about stopping that it’s about making sure renewables increases a lot faster than that.

    Same amount of energy as 33,000 for a tool like this. That peanuts.

    The real problem no one wants to talk about is population growth. We need less people who are going to use more energy and have better standards of living. But the world’s probably fucking doomed anyway.

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      8 months ago

      The real problem no one wants to talk about is population growth.

      I don’t know how young you are, but this has certainly been talked about. A lot. tl;dr there exists no tl;dr for this issue but a significant aspect is inequality rather than absolute population size.

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      8 months ago

      The real problem no one wants to talk about is population growth.

      But all muh unborn Mozarts and shit. But muh instincts. BUT MUH RIGHTS.

      People are not ready for this discussion and the fact that every developed nation makes fucking free parking spots for large families, tax write offs and whatever the fuck proves it. Let’s not fix this planet, instead breed like fucking rabbits because somehow “we are going extinct” while surpassing 9 billion in population. We are fucked because we can’t keep our instincts at bay. Our instinct is to reproduce and own as much useless crap as possible. Turns out it isn’t really compatible with how the universe works, but that won’t fucking stop us from trying.

      Carbon capture your children.